Saniyah Hill🔮
speculative fiction writer. podcast creator. poet. screenwriter. vampire. wizard.
ABOUT
SANIYAH HILL (they/them) is a Black-American writer that focuses on the intricacies of the human psyche. Combining interests in psychology, religious imagery, and mythology, they use fantasy and contemporary settings as a backdrop to tell diverse and compelling stories. They do intensive character studies and reflect on how people’s pasts affect their behavior and relationships in the present through many writing styles.Saniyah takes their past and real world experiences and puts it on the page in overarching plots, complex characters, expansive worldbuilding, and presents their stories with themes of friendship, grief, love, community, and above all else, hope. They aim to not only tell unique stories that include neurodiversity, queerness, and mental illness, but black stories as well, as shown through the many characters they create.They plan to get a MFA in Creative Writing in the near future.
PROSE
What Her Name Wasn't (2022)
forthcoming in Running Wild & RIZE Presses➜ Novella, 24.7k words
➜ New adult contemporary mysteryA college student who can see ghosts befriends a ghost girl from the 50s after renting an apartment off campus, and they team up to figure out who killed her and her family (and she helps them get with their crush, wing woman style).
POETRY
The Caribbean Writer
published in 2022
“MY FEMININITY COMES BACK TO BITE ME”
Willard & Maple
published in 2024
“RACE OF LIFE”
“I”D LOOK BACK”
“IN DEFENSE OF ORPHEUS”
“I KEEP MIXING UP ORANGES AND CLEMENTINES”
PODCASTS
DEADWOOD, a horror anthology podcast
Executive producer, creator & lead writerDEADWOOD is a horror anthology podcast that tells several different stories about eldritch horrors, immortal entities, losing the ones you love, and the inherent humanity in staying alive. Some stories are more standalone than others, but all of them have their own perspective on queerness, mental illness, and what it means to be different when the world dies around you.The Beginning starts at the End.Coming Fall 2025.
SCREENPLAYS
The Poet Virgil (2022)
In a world where monsters and humans coexist, anything can happen...A VAMPIRE poet and his WEREWOLF roommate must put aside their differences once a murder occurs and past conspiracies begin to bubble to the surface.● Romantic comedy turned murder mystery
● Animated miniseries (one day, eventually)
● Character wikis
Drastic Times (2023)
One must either live with the consequences or take some drastic measures...An overprotective L.A police detective is entangled in a VICIOUS CYCLE OF VIOLENCE and gradually loses his morality after his criminal twin sister robs a bank.● Nonlinear neo-noir
● Live action feature film
● Character wikis (coming soon)
CONTACT
For any writing inquiries, please feel free to email me here: [email protected]